RESTORATION & REVIVAL SA’s award-winning thicket project on track to create 100,000 jobs and revive 800,000 hectares 6 min 6 By Lerato Mutsila
By David Gaynor Simon’s Town is about to lose its baboons, a brave funder can save them 9 min 3 4 December 2025
Maverick Earth Share your favourite Table Mountain stories for an upcoming article series 1 min 0 By Daily Maverick Connect
COP20 OP-ED Southern Africa’s wildlife trade agenda implodes, and with it the veneer of a ‘successful’ conservation model 7 min 3 By Adam Cruise
WILDLIFE POLICY Death or sanctuary future for many baboons as Cape Town adopts controversial plan 7 min 2 By Daniélle Schaafsma
TEMPESTUOUS TIMES Brace yourself for a storm-lashed December, with extreme weather expected to intensify 3 min 0 By Lerato Mutsila
BIG DEAL Unsustainable elephant hunting is a growing economic risk for Botswana, says report 7 min 4 By Don Pinnock
POST-COP WORLD SA’s NDC crossroads — is the climate plan ambitious enough, and where do we go from here? 4 min 0 By Lerato Mutsila
OUR BURNING PLANET Study of cheetahs and leopards shows lead poisoning threatens wildlife and humans 4 min 0 By Elsabé Brits
By Karishma Bhoolia Pensions gone rogue — is your money being invested responsibly? 5 min 0 26 November 2025
TROUBLING TREND OP-ED Selfie safari crisis as social media drives dangerous, unethical wildlife tourism 8 min 6 By Robyn von Geusau
AID AND COMFORT Appeal launched for human-wildlife conflict victims of botched Ifaw elephant translocation 3 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
FATAL POLICY ERROR OP-ED Legalising rhino horn is a deadly mistake, and CITES CoP20 must close the door completely 7 min 4 By Adam Cruise
CLIMATE TALKS COP30 fails to deliver ambitious action on fossil fuels, adaptation, finance and forests 7 min 0 By Kristin Engel
WILDLIFE Pressure mounts for DA leader to justify firing of Environment Minister Dion George 6 min 11 By Don Pinnock
TEMPORARY CLOSURE Fire derails COP30 climate summit, one day before its scheduled end 7 min 0 By Kristin Engel
CLIMATE SUMMIT ‘Restoring land and empowering people' is essential for a resilient future, COP30 declares 4 min 0 By Naledi Sikhakhane
COP30 SA technical team negotiates without a political head as Brazil climate summit moves along 5 min 0 By Kristin Engel
COP30 OP-ED ‘We are the thermometer’ — Brazil’s Indigenous protesters stake claim in divided zones of Belém 6 min 0 By Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
GLOBAL AWARD SA studio wins top animation prize for bringing prehistoric Karoo waterhole to life 4 min 0 By Estelle Ellis